Student Emergency

Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures

During an emergency situation on campus, the Office of the President and the Emergency Management Team will be alerted. The Chain of Command Policy I-03 will be implemented in the event the president is unavailable. The Emergency Management Team will work with Campus Safety and the Rapid City Police Department to confirm the situation. Upon confirmation of an emergency affecting campus, the Emergency Management Team will immediately initiate a notice to the entire campus via the Campus Alert System, which is available for all students, faculty, and staff. This service allows the School of Mines to send emergency alerts to cell phones, landlines or computers. In the event that the emergency may affect the larger community, the Office of University Relations will notify the proper media outlets. The Campus Alerts Policy VII-01 is available at http://sdmines.sdsmt.edu/health-safety.

The School of Mines Emergency Management Team will, without delay and taking into account the safety of the community, determine the content of the notification and initiate the notification system, unless issuing the notification will, in the professional judgment of the responsible authorities, compromise efforts to assist the victim or to contain, respond to, or otherwise mitigate the emergency.

The School of Mines will test the emergency response and evacuation procedures annually at a minimum. Emergency and evacuation procedures will be publicized with a minimum of one test per year. These tests may be announced or unannounced. Documentation will be kept for each test including the description of the exercise, the date, the time, and whether it was announced or unannounced.